In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of studio visits that invite the community to gain insight into the creative process of our international Artists-in-Residence, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.

CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR FREE RESERVATION!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

INGA GALINYTÉ + CHLOÉ BELLEMERE, Lithuania & France
Inga Galinytė (LT) & Chloé Bellemere (FR)’s artistic paths first crossed during the International Summer Program at Watermill Center in 2018. After the program, they continued the creative dialogue, even living in two different countries. The two artists met again during the residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2021, where they developed research through the media of performance and installation on the subject of memory.
Galinyté is an interdisciplinary & performance artist. Her current work focuses on the phenomenon of empathy and its transformative quality.
Bellemere is a multidisciplinary artist, working mainly with scenography and photography. A graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, she lives and works between Nantes and Paris.

KAYLA FARRISH, United States – Nina von Maltzahn Fellow at The Watermill Center
Kayla Farrish is a Black American Director merging dance-theater, filmmaking, narrative, and sound score. She captures ranging identity, the mythical dualities of history and present survival, and powerful dreaming lending to liberation. Her commissions include Limon Dance Company, Gibney, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Danspace, Pepatian, Little Island, Harlem Stage, Blacklight Summit and beyond. Some works formed: Black Bodies Sonata, The New Frontier: My dear America, Sunny Side/Inside the Laughing Barrel, December 8th, Martyr’s Fiction, and others. She creates live works, films, site-specific/immersive, and collaborations. She recently shared Choir (Carrie Mae Weems Exhibition), To Dream A Lifetime (BlackLight), Roster with Melanie Charles, MIXTAPES with Alex MacKinnon and site-specific Broken Record (Little Island) with Brandon Coleman, and Rinsing and Harbor films. Presenting spaces include Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Symphony Space, and National Sawdust, among receiving support from Watermill Center for the Arts, Armstrong Now, Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, Baryshnikov Arts Center, La Mama Experimental Theater, and others.
She received the Sundance Uprise Grant for Emerging BIPOC Directors, Bessie Awards for NYLA’s Motherboard Suite and December 8th-Gibney, NY Times Top 2021 Dance Performances- Roster and Breakout Star. She is a recipient of the Harkness Promise Award for 2022. During 2022, she was a Rehearsal Director for Punchdrunk Sleep No More, and adjunct faculty for NYU Tisch Dance. During 2023, she created new works for Arizona State University, LINES dance Training Program, University of Arizona. She has been commissioned to create a reimagined archival work for Limon Dance Company, and to collaborate with musician Trixie Whitley, for her new music tour. In her next company project, Put Away the Fire, dear, she is touring a group narrative work of radical imagination and liberation, supported by NEFA NDP Touring Dance Production Grant.

FANA FRASER, Trinidad & Tobago
Fana Fraser is an interdisciplinary artist and director. She is a BAM 2022 Jack Nusbaum Artist in Residence; 2022 Petronio Residency Center RETREAT & RESTORE awardee; 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Dance; and 2021-22 Performance AIRspace Resident at Abrons Arts Center. A 2021 Caribbean/The Future Space resident artist, Fana was shortlisted for the 2020 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize. She is a full spectrum doula from a Reproductive Justice lens. Fana served as Rehearsal Director for Ailey II from 2016-20 and as a co-director/consultant for Pepatián from 2018-21. Her work has been presented at Abrons Arts Center, BAAD!, Brooklyn Museum, Gibney, ISSUE Project Room, Knockdown Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, region(es), Wassaic Project, La MaMa Moves!, BAX, Emerging Artists Theatre’s “Best of New Works Series”, Dixon Place, WestFest, the CURRENT SESSIONS at The Wild Project, Dance & Performance Institute, and Trinidad Theatre Workshop.
She has performed with Camille A. Brown & Dancers, The Metropolitan Opera, Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Francesca Harper Project, Andrea Miller for Hermès, Ailey II, and Ryan McNamara.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please note: The Watermill Center no longer requires visitors to wear face-coverings for indoor events. The use of masks is encouraged, and disposable masks will be provided by The Center upon request. We thank you for supporting our efforts to keep both our international and local community of artists and alumni safe and healthy during their stay at The Watermill Center.

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for the check-in process.

The Watermill Center is committed to providing accessible programs and services for all patrons and artists with disabilities. For further information about any accessibility needs or issues, please email us at visit@watermillcenter.org.

Photo copyright Lindsay Morris.